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Well Im glad vista worked for some people. It sure didnt for me. I have never been so let down in an OS ever. I had so many problems and issues with that mess.


Open Office is brilliant! I have that for both WinXP and Mac OSX. The Word version of their program can compile to PDF format. Very nice..!


So, KK,

What is an EEE?

And is it also nuclear powered?
 
Lionheart said:
Open Office is brilliant! I have that for both WinXP and Mac OSX. The Word version of their program can compile to PDF format. Very nice..!


So, KK,

What is an EEE?

And is it also nuclear powered?
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That is a really neat feature. I wish MS Word did that...

The EEE is a netbook from ASUS. I got a 1000H model for 330 dollars. I wish it were nuclear powered, maybe then I would get more than 3 hours battery life. It runs Ubuntu Linux very nicely. I'm considering putting in my old 7200 rpm drive from my old laptop to see if it helps with boot and loading times.

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Kiwikat said:
It is pretty rough putting a perfectly good operating in the same sentence as that atrocity, ME. I was lucky if it bluescreened only twice a night. That is hands down the worst piece of code EVER written.

I've got open office on my EEE. I haven't really used it for any work but I've explored it some. It seems like a decent alternative to MS office.
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The trick with ME was to uninstall any crapware the PC maker had installed and defrag on a regular schedule. If you take care of ME it runs just fine. It also should have been setup to use more memory.

Personally we are slowly moving almost all our systems to Linux. Mandrake is the version most of my employees seem to prefer and I expect to have it done around the end of the year. We just have to decide on an accounting program and move all our data to it.

That will leave us with just two PCs running Windows ( the wife and my gaming PCs ) and I am hanging onto XP as long as I can for those systems.
 
RickN said:
The trick with ME was to uninstall any crapware the PC maker had installed and defrag on a regular schedule. If you take care of ME it runs just fine. It also should have been setup to use more memory.

Personally we are slowly moving almost all our systems to Linux. Mandrake is the version most of my employees seem to prefer and I expect to have it done around the end of the year. We just have to decide on an accounting program and move all our data to it.

That will leave us with just two PCs running Windows ( the wife and my gaming PCs ) and I am hanging onto XP as long as I can for those systems.
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Dang Rick!

Linux is one popular OS. Thats wild to hear. I know Apple is getting alot of people asking for a way to run BootCamp to use Linux.




Thanks KK for the info on the EEE. Sounded like some secret weapon or something, lol..

I have a lappie I got a couple of years ago. HP, all white, looks like an Apple. It has vista on it. Took perhaps 2 min's to load up. I kid you guys not. I had WinXP installed, and that thing is freeeeking fast! Totally different laptop now. But it weighs a ton. I wish it weighed less so I could carry it around. Someday I'll replace it with a MacBookPro. :d



Bill
 
Lionheart said:
Dang Rick!

Linux is one popular OS. Thats wild to hear. I know Apple is getting alot of people asking for a way to run BootCamp to use Linux.



Bill
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If you should end up with an older PC try putting Linux on it. Outside of not being able to run most games it is a great OS. Flightgear is available for most Linux and on Mandrake you can tell the computer to fetch and it will download and install it for you.

Or just want to play around with it you can download and burn a live CD and run it from the CD. It loads a lot slower that way but you can check it out without screwing p your system. The directions and links to any needed free software are on the sites.
 
Thanks Rick,


I'll definately check it out. Ive been hearing so much about it, Im dying to find out what its all about.



Bill
 
Check it out here. Note: I keep forgetting they changed the name on Mandrake to Mandriva.

http://www.mandriva.com/

We are using the Gnome desktop because it is about as easy as Windows, but without the cost and security problems.
 
It is cool to see people using linux more often, whatever flavor it might be. I'm going to get another hard drive for my computer and partition it like 4 times and get different distros and check them out. Or alternately I could use my USB drive as a live CD... hmm...

I do believe open source will be the next big thing to hit computers.
 
Funny to see this thread topic.

I've been "away" for a few days as last weekend I finally started getting repetitive messages popping up that I was seriously low on HD space. My old 74GB WD Raptors were choked. On Saturday I had to start unloading aircraft just to get back up to 2 GB of freespace on the C: drive.

On Sunday I ordered a set of WD 300GB VelociRaptors on the last day of Newegg's sale. They showed up at lunch time on Wedneday. I pulled both of the old Raptors out that evening, slapped in the two new ones and NTFS formatted them so that I could start the wall-to-wall re-install of everything on Thursday. I wanted everything up and running and flying again by this weekend.

By the time I went to sleep last night I had XP Pro fully updated and back up to XP SP3, all system drivers up to current, plus FSX all the way back up including all of my payware aircraft, flightsim utilities and scenery.

I'm sitting here at the moment waiting on the current defrag to finish so that I can throw in the last few odds and ends non-flight sim stuff and she's done.

It might be an odd thing to say but I love the whole re-format and install process. I knew that two new hard drives were in the near future but hadn't picked a solid date until those messages started popping up. Having to get rid of aircraft to open up space was the tolerance threshold. I know it also sounds weird to some, but I find FSX light years easier and faster to get back up to full speed than re-installing FS9 ever was. That's even with having more payware aircraft, utilities and scenery for FSX than I ever did for FS9.

To new things I see so far:
1. I realize now that about 80% of all the racket coming of my computer case has been my old Raptors and not the 12 cooling fans in there that I had been blaming. What a difference in noise level.

2. Waiting for a 300GB defrag to finish is agonizing. I defrag constantly, so that 's going to take some getting used to. :)
 
RickN said:
The trick with ME was to uninstall any crapware the PC maker had installed and defrag on a regular schedule. If you take care of ME it runs just fine. It also should have been setup to use more memory.

Personally we are slowly moving almost all our systems to Linux. Mandrake is the version most of my employees seem to prefer and I expect to have it done around the end of the year. We just have to decide on an accounting program and move all our data to it.

That will leave us with just two PCs running Windows ( the wife and my gaming PCs ) and I am hanging onto XP as long as I can for those systems.
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ME's networking was a joke. Sometimes it would work, other times it was like it didn't even exist. ME was a step back from 98.
 
My nephew and I were talking. He was wanting to know how difficult it is to actually make a OS.

It got me thinking as well, lol..


Imagine taking parts of various OS's and piecing together a custom OS. Sort of like taking various car parts and building one car from them.


Could be interesting... LHOS... :d

That thing would be so lightning fast....!



Bill
 
Drake said:
ME's networking was a joke. Sometimes it would work, other times it was like it didn't even exist. ME was a step back from 98.
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We used it on a network of a dozen computers for several years without a single problem related to the OS or computers. Of course the first thing I did with any computer was to install an OEM copy of ME without all the crapware that came with factory computers. I seriously think all of ME's problems were related to other software not working properly with it.

That and I posted before it should have been designed to use more memory. I always used the work around to install 1gb of ram and it always seemed to make a difference.
 
i really dont know how some people have to contanstly keep reinstalling things! since i've reinstalled xp (new HD, bout sep last year) i've hardly ever defragged (prolly around 6/8 times), never had to reinstall fsx or any other program, havnt had any viruses, i let the hamster thats running inside me pc go out on the town every weekend, no reg cleaners, couple virus+spyware scans, no driver cleaners when updated graphic card drivers etc, and its still working fine *waits for it to all go pearshaped*

so my question is .... what makes you guys so good at breaking things?, are you all like my dad who just cant help but fiddle?? :173go1::monkies: :ernae:
 
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